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Speaker 1: What's up, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of Crush City Territory. I'm Chandler Room,

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Speaker 2: joined by Tyler Stafford. On the day the Astros begin

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Speaker 2: their first road trip of the season, a three city,

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Speaker 2: ten game trip that takes them through Sacramento, Denver, and

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Speaker 2: then Seattle. During it the topic d jor the topic

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Speaker 2: everyone loves to talk about the infield surplus that will resurface.

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Speaker 2: But I know everyone's waiting with baited breath to talk

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Speaker 2: about that for twenty five minutes. I know that that

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Speaker 2: really gets everyone going, and everyone's really happy to hear

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Speaker 2: about that. So we're gonna make you wait on that.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that a little bit later. I don't think,

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Speaker 2: you know what we didn't get to do, Tyler, in

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Speaker 2: the last couple that we've talked about, we didn't get

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Speaker 2: to talk about maybe some of like the more non

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Speaker 2: Astros things that occurred in the first week of baseball.

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Speaker 2: Got our first look at, you know, a couple different

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Speaker 2: things around the sport, but I think none more prevalent

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Speaker 2: than ABS. We got to see our first look at

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Speaker 2: how it's going to work. We got to you know,

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Speaker 2: teams are still getting a little bit used to how

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Speaker 2: it's going to go, how when to challenge, when not

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Speaker 2: to challenge, what teams are going to do, for what

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Speaker 2: teams are going to do, to kind of how to

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Speaker 2: handle this. But I think the first thing that was

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Speaker 2: interesting to me. I didn't and you were. You were

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Speaker 2: in the stadium for opening Day, and I can't remember

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Speaker 2: how many times the Astros challenged an opening Day. But

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Speaker 2: it's entertaining, man like in the stadium, Like it builds

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Speaker 2: a lot of suspense, like the minute of guy challenges

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Speaker 2: something like you kind of feel it in the stadium.

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Speaker 2: Everybody like holds their breath and then it's like it's

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Speaker 2: very quick. It comes up on the video board and

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Speaker 2: then they have the pink thing that pops up if

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Speaker 2: it's a strike. I did not expect it to have

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Speaker 2: as much entertainment value as it's added to the end

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Speaker 2: game experience.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's nothing more American than everyone getting to

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Speaker 3: cheer for an overturned call. That that's just everybody loves that.

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Speaker 3: It's great. It feels good to get the call right.

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Speaker 3: And it's fast too. I mean, you know, I don't

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Speaker 3: think there was a challenge until like the seventh or

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Speaker 3: eighth inning. On opening day and I was waiting the

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Speaker 3: whole time, like I want to see this thing. And yeah,

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Speaker 3: as soon as they did, I mean they tapped the

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Speaker 3: helmet and by the time the umpire announces, hey, this

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Speaker 3: guy's challenging, it's already up on the board and you

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Speaker 3: see the pitch coming in. I mean it's five or

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Speaker 3: ten seconds and it's great. I love it. It gives

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Speaker 3: like an extra bit of suspense to every pitch too,

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Speaker 3: because you don't know if they're going to challenge you

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Speaker 3: or out. So there are some that are like close,

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Speaker 3: and I've started getting this feeling of like, you know,

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Speaker 3: do I trust this hitter enough to know not to

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Speaker 3: challenge this because I know that they're upset, but I

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Speaker 3: can see on the screen it's not a good like

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Speaker 3: don't do it. You know, You're you're kind of feeling

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Speaker 3: that inside there. And then there are ones, you know,

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Speaker 3: where you're just begging, like your catcher to challenge. It's

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Speaker 3: it's so close, but like you think you can get it,

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Speaker 3: but they decide not to, and it just adds this

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Speaker 3: element to it throughout, And yeah, I think it's great.

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Speaker 3: I think having the limit of two, you know that

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Speaker 3: maybe they bump it up to you know, three or

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Speaker 3: something in the playoffsers. I don't know, but I think

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Speaker 3: the limit makes it really great too, because, like I said,

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Speaker 3: you have to be really confident. You have to be

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Speaker 3: confident enough to publicly shame the umpire and in order

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Speaker 3: to ask them for the robot's help.

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Speaker 2: The Astros will enter play on Friday at in Sacramento.

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Speaker 2: They've challenged eleven total times. They challenge eleven total times

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Speaker 2: on the first homestand six of them came when they

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Speaker 2: were when they were on defense, so from well, one

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Speaker 2: was from the pitcher Roderi Muno, the other five were

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Speaker 2: from either jin Or Diaz or Christian Basquez behind the plate,

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Speaker 2: and then five others have come from from batters, from

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Speaker 2: hitters they are, they've won two of the five challenges

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Speaker 2: when they are the hitting team. I believe Jose al

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Speaker 2: Tuve is responsible for the two that they have won,

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Speaker 2: and they've won two of the six when they are

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Speaker 2: pitching when they are on defense. I think the thing

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Speaker 2: that was always going to be interesting, and they even

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Speaker 2: talked about this in spring training a lot of the

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Speaker 2: players and the coaches did, was that they were going

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Speaker 2: to use maybe the first week or two to kind

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Speaker 2: to challenge. You know, I know Jose al tuove challenge

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Speaker 2: to pitch in the first inning on this homestand and

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Speaker 2: he got it right. It was two inches below the

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Speaker 1: Called a strike.

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Speaker 2: You know, you saw you've seen Yainer Diaz, I think

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Speaker 2: Das on the second game of the year, challenged a

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Speaker 2: pitch and like the second or third inning, that was

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Speaker 2: pretty clearly a strike. And that was a tough one

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: We discussed the Rottery Muno's incidents.

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Speaker 1: Probably a strong word that rottery.

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Speaker 2: Muno is kind of going against the going against the

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Speaker 2: establishment and challenging as a pitcher, the one thing that

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Speaker 2: the Astros told their guys not to do. But what

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Speaker 2: have you taken away just in terms of strategy, Like

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Speaker 2: how how do you think teams should best deploy this?

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Speaker 2: Should it be you only challenge within the first five

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Speaker 2: innings if you are one hundred percent one thousand percent

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Speaker 2: sure that this is going to get overturned? Or like

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Speaker 2: if you were a manager, if you were kind of

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Speaker 2: if you were in Joe a spot of shoes, how

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Speaker 2: would you set the rules for abs challenges.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it depends on the player. Like, uh,

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Speaker 3: you know, I think esak paratees can challenge whenever he wants.

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Speaker 3: He's got a very good understanding of the strike zone.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like you know, Alex Bregman, I just automatic,

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Speaker 3: I would just say, if he touches his helmet, just

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Speaker 3: go ahead and overturn it. I'm going to assume that

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Speaker 3: he is correct. I think the first one you can

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Speaker 3: use whenever. I think having the one in your back

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Speaker 3: pocket for the later innings makes sense. But yeah, I

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Speaker 3: mean as far as strategy, it's just you know, what

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Speaker 3: do you think is the pitch clearly not a strike? Well,

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Speaker 3: then let's let's get that overturned, or you know, obviously

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Speaker 3: the opposite when you're on defense. But yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 3: at this point, I think it's just a trust factor

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Speaker 3: of you know, do you trust your catcher to make

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Speaker 3: these decisions. And also I think there is something to

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Speaker 3: five challenges within the first couple of innings, and it

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Speaker 3: it does, it would get in my head as an umpire.

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't know if it if it actually does,

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Speaker 3: but if you know, if those things are getting corrected

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Speaker 3: in the second or third inning, I think it does

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Speaker 3: affect how you call the rest of the game. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean as far a strategy, I think you definitely

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Speaker 3: need to keep one. We saw that with the Astros game,

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Speaker 3: you know, earlier in the year, where like you mentioned,

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Speaker 3: Yiner challenged one and then there was another challenge pretty

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Speaker 3: early on. I think All two a challenge one and

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Speaker 3: up and they were out of challenges, right and it

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Speaker 3: was a it was a three to one count that

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Speaker 3: should have been ball four, but it was it was

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Speaker 3: called a strike. So you know, you don't want to

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Speaker 3: burn through both of yours before the fifth inning. But

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Speaker 3: I think the first one just just use if you're confident.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if it were me, I would dictate it by counts, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: I can't envision a world we're challenging on the first

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Speaker 2: pitch of it at bat, even like maybe within the

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Speaker 2: first couple pitches of it at bat. I can't Like

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Speaker 2: there's very few times where that is maybe advisable. Now,

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Speaker 2: if look, if you're down oh one in the count

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Speaker 2: and there's a very obvious ball that's called a strike.

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Speaker 2: You know, one to one and oh two are completely

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Speaker 2: different things.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, there.

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Speaker 2: Was like a first pitch challenge at one point, Like

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Speaker 2: I don't see that being.

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Speaker 1: A suitable path forward.

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Speaker 2: Maybe only if it's late in the game and a

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Speaker 2: big at bat, But if you're challenging like the first

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Speaker 2: pitch of it at bat in the fourth inning, like

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Speaker 2: that doesn't seem like a logical use of it. But

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Speaker 2: I think counts are important. I think when to do

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Speaker 2: it in terms of like during in at bad is important.

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Speaker 2: And you know, you talk about kind of how umpires

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Speaker 2: are reacting to this. You know, I talked to Josh

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Speaker 2: Miller a little bit. I talked to Josh Miller a

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Speaker 2: you know, it sounds like I'm gonna say this and

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Speaker 2: it's going to sound.

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Speaker 1: Like sour grapes, like after the fact.

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Speaker 2: But I think there's something to it, because you saw

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Speaker 2: it improve against the Red Sox. But they said that

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Speaker 2: the Angels. Part of why the Angels series went the

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Speaker 2: way it did in terms of walks, in terms of

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Speaker 2: they walked twenty a franchise record twenty eight guys in

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Speaker 2: four games was twofold one. It was that the Angels

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Speaker 2: came in and they just did not swing as much

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Speaker 2: as their metrics and their projections said they would. This

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Speaker 2: was a team that they thought they could exploit at

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Speaker 2: think the Ashers think it was because ABS is in

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Speaker 2: play now and teams are not going to maybe expand

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Speaker 1: Teams are going to be more reticent to swing. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've talked about it with jose Al Tuvey,

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Speaker 2: like that has something to do with why he's drawn

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Speaker 2: eight walks in the first seven games of the year.

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Speaker 1: You know, Carlos Corea said that, So it's that.

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Speaker 2: And Josh Miller also said they noticed the umpires are

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Speaker 2: calling a tighter strike zone just from the top. They're

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Speaker 2: calling a tighter strike zone because it's one of these

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Speaker 2: things now, like you can call it tight and if

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Speaker 2: they miss a pitch and it can be challenged like

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Speaker 2: they like. Umpires may not like it. Umpires may not

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Speaker 2: love you know, when things are overturned. But they do

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Speaker 2: have that safety blanket. They have the safety blanket of like,

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Speaker 2: all right, if it pitch is on the edge and

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like I can go this, I can

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Speaker 2: go with this call and then know it's up to

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Speaker 2: them to challenge. It's up to the guys to challenge,

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Speaker 2: and they can get the call right. So I can't

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Speaker 2: say that it's causation and correlation that you know, they

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Speaker 2: walk twenty eight guys in the first four games of

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Speaker 2: the season, you know, got that sample size of absn

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Speaker 2: Then you know, they turned around in the Red Sox

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Speaker 2: and they barely walked to anyone. They walked a couple guys,

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Speaker 2: but not nearly the volume that they did with the Angels.

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Speaker 2: So it's interesting. It's gonna be a feeling out process.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be something that I don't think they've got

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Speaker 2: solved now. I think it's going to take you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean, This is a sample size sport, so

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Speaker 2: it's going to take a bigger sample size of having ABS.

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Speaker 2: point play for the Astros. I don't know how much

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Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have, but it's still one

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Speaker 3: Is jose Al Tuove gonna play left field aad all

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Speaker 1: I would be fall on the floor stunned.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I who knows. I mean, they randomly decided last

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Speaker 2: The the only reason I say I'd be fallowing the

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Speaker 1: He has not worked out there at all.

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean the biggest thing, the easiest way

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Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean, I I don't know how they're

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Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but I can't imagine that's what

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Speaker 2: would be again fall on the floor stunned. If Jordan

436
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 2: Alvarez steps foot in the outfield at course Field and

437
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,160
Speaker 2: then you go to Seattle, where Jordon Alvarez has played

438
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,800
Speaker 2: nine career games in left field at T Mobile Park,

439
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 2: they obviously feel somewhat confident running him out there. If

440
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,720
Speaker 2: they've played him nine times in left field at T

441
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 2: Mobile Park. Is he going to play four games in

442
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 2: a row? This is a four game series. Is he

443
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,400
Speaker 2: gonna play four games in a row in the outfield?

444
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:47,960
Speaker 3: He is not.

445
00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,480
Speaker 2: I can see them maybe putting him in left field

446
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:55,280
Speaker 2: in Seattle for two of those four games, and that's

447
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:57,359
Speaker 2: the way you get Paradus in for those two. I

448
00:22:57,359 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 2: don't know how the other two are going to work out.

449
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 2: But as far as tonight, if you're asking me tonight,

450
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,040
Speaker 2: I think he sucked Paradis maybe out of the lineup tonight. Now, look,

451
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 2: they could do a couple of different things. They could

452
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 2: put Paradis at second base in DHL two. Vy that

453
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,200
Speaker 2: that wouldn't work because you would have to put jord

454
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 2: On in left field.

455
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:16,160
Speaker 1: Again.

456
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:19,000
Speaker 2: You're running into all the conundrums. You're running into all

457
00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,000
Speaker 2: like the roadblocks that Joe spot is going to have

458
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 2: to navigate here, and it it's again, it kind of

459
00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 2: underscores why this was going to be such a difficult

460
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,239
Speaker 2: thing to do because and I want to make this

461
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,280
Speaker 2: clear too, like Jordan out they just played seven games

462
00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,840
Speaker 2: at Dyke And Park, where they're perfectly fine running Jordon

463
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:39,720
Speaker 2: Alvarez out there.

464
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: He played two of the seven games in left field.

465
00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 2: Like, if that doesn't demonstrate or illustrate that they don't

466
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,880
Speaker 2: want to over expose him in the outfield, I don't

467
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:50,480
Speaker 2: know what will.

468
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:56,400
Speaker 3: He's not that slow, it's not like he's incapable of

469
00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,239
Speaker 3: playing left field, and they're I mean, there's not that

470
00:24:01,359 --> 00:24:05,399
Speaker 3: many balls hit to left field in a game anyway,

471
00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 3: you know. It's not like it's not like your shortstop

472
00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 3: right where you've got to have just the best defense

473
00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 3: possible because the whole game hinges on your ability to

474
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 3: convert those into outs. I mean, most of the time

475
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 3: that a ball is hit to left field, it's either

476
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 3: on the ground and you're just picking it up and

477
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 3: throwing it back anyway, or it's in the gap and

478
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 3: it's a double anyway regardless of who's playing left field,

479
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 3: and the center fielder is going to get to it,

480
00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:37,119
Speaker 3: or it's a it's a fly ball that you can catch.

481
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,440
Speaker 3: I mean, again, you're gonna lose some defensive value by

482
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 3: not having your best defensive left fielder out there. But

483
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,639
Speaker 3: if I am riding the lineup, I am riding my

484
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:53,840
Speaker 3: best offense in until the defense is so untenable that

485
00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 3: I have to make a change. But right now, I'm

486
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,159
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go with who were my best hitters,

487
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 3: how do I get them all out there? And then

488
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 3: if I need to do some defensive replacement later in

489
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 3: the game, you know whatever, that's fine. Maybe you pinch

490
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,960
Speaker 3: run for Jordan in the seventh or eighth inning and

491
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 3: then Bryce Matthews is out, you know whatever. Joe Lo

492
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:20,199
Speaker 3: Braffido is playing left field. But I want all of

493
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 3: those guys in the lineup as often as possible and

494
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 3: again until until it doesn't work. That's that's what I

495
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 3: would be trying to do.

496
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:35,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you bring up the other point that and

497
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 2: let's let's put this out there too, Like we're going

498
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,200
Speaker 2: off of what Joe Aspada has said for the last

499
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 2: seven or eight weeks, right that Jordan's going to be

500
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 2: the primary primary DH. They don't want to play him

501
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 2: in left field a lot. He will play out there.

502
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,680
Speaker 2: They've never said he's not going to play out there,

503
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 2: but they don't want to play him out there a lot.

504
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,640
Speaker 2: His career high in games played in the outfield.

505
00:25:57,280 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 1: Is fifty six.

506
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 2: I would be a little bit surprised if he approaches

507
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 2: that number this season. Now we're talking about this on

508
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 2: April third. Things can change in season, like Joe Aspada

509
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 2: is allowed to, you know, have a change of heart

510
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,479
Speaker 2: or just see things happen and read and react and say,

511
00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 2: all right, like we gotta we gotta scale back on

512
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 2: this plan. Like they had a plan last year to

513
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,280
Speaker 2: play Josel Tuva in left field the majority of the

514
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:24,560
Speaker 2: time and they had to scrap that plan because the

515
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,359
Speaker 2: whole team got hurt. Could that happen this year where

516
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 2: they just decide that, you know, look, it's two it's

517
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 2: it's more valuable to us to put our best offensive

518
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,840
Speaker 2: lineup out there than it is to for lack of

519
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 2: a better word, you know, protect or baby Jordan Alvarez

520
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:43,480
Speaker 2: in left field. That they could get to that point,

521
00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but I don't think they're there right now.

522
00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,239
Speaker 2: I think they right now they're going to maintain what

523
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 2: they said, you know, all off season, and that Jordon

524
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 2: Alvarez is not going to play, not going to play

525
00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,600
Speaker 2: a lot in left field. He will play. I think

526
00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 2: he will play in left field on this road trip.

527
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 2: They're going to play ten games on this road trip.

528
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 2: I would imagine he probably plays left field, and two

529
00:27:08,359 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: or three of them. We just laid out the ballparks

530
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 2: where it would work. I think playing him once in

531
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: against the A's at Sutter Health Park and then twice

532
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 2: in left field against the Mariners. I think that's probably

533
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,760
Speaker 2: the best path to go. That's not this is not

534
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 2: sourced information. I don't have the Astros lineups like in

535
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 2: my text messages for the next ten days.

536
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: This is just me guessing.

537
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 2: This is me just you know, informed speculation here, just

538
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,880
Speaker 2: based off what they've done in the past, what they

539
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 2: want to do. And also let's also think about this too. Logically,

540
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 2: they will have an off day after the last game

541
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 2: in Denver on Wednesday, they have that day off Thursday,

542
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:53,120
Speaker 2: and then they start the series against the Mariners that Friday.

543
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 2: They play I believe, thirteen games in a row. That

544
00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 2: starts a stretch of thirteen games. They're going to give

545
00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 2: guys off. There will be just days where Carl's Karai

546
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,680
Speaker 2: gets a day off, Jeremy Payne gets a day off,

547
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 2: al two Big gets a day off.

548
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: Walker gets a day off.

549
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 2: That will allow Estoc Paratus to get in the lineup

550
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 2: and they can get him in that way too, But

551
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: this thought that they are going to just you know,

552
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 2: plan in like all right, we'll give you know, Payna

553
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 2: and off day every week, or Korea and off day

554
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 2: every week, or like I don't think that's realistic just

555
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 2: because a if these guys are hitting so well, like

556
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 2: why would you willingly take them out of the lineup?

557
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 2: Like why would you pre plan that and be these

558
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 2: guys don't want that. Like we did this whole song

559
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,680
Speaker 2: and dance in spring training of talking to all these

560
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: guys about you know, altuo Ve wants to play one

561
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty games. Payne is not going to do it,

562
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: but he wanted to play one hundred and sixty two

563
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,840
Speaker 2: games in spring training. Christian Walker, you know, wants to

564
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 2: be in a guy that plays one hundred and fifty games.

565
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 2: Like it's going to test a lot of joe'spots ability

566
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,719
Speaker 2: to communicate, It's going to test a lot of joe'spot's

567
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 2: ability to you know, make sure everyone's pulling on the

568
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 2: same rope, And there's no indication that that's not the case.

569
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 2: I think these are all team first guys. I think

570
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 2: these are guys that are going to accept their roles.

571
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: But It's going to be a delicate balancing act. And

572
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 2: I do not envy Joe's spot at all. And how

573
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,560
Speaker 2: he's going to have to manage it the next you know,

574
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 2: one hundred and what's one hundred and sixty two minus seven?

575
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 1: You taught math at one.

576
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 3: Point one fifty five.

577
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 2: Sure how he's going to manage it across the next

578
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 2: one hundred fifty five games.

579
00:29:28,880 --> 00:29:34,200
Speaker 3: I taught history, so math was not my strong suit.

580
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 3: It'd be one thing if Jordon had not been vocal

581
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 3: about wanting to play left field, you know, you know,

582
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 3: if it were just a spot of saying we want

583
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 3: him to be the DH and Jordon never had a

584
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 3: comment on it, and you could kind of read in

585
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 3: between the lines and say, you know, he'll play left field,

586
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,719
Speaker 3: but he doesn't really like it. He publicly said I

587
00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 3: want to play left field. I like doing and I

588
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 3: think I'm capable, So put him out there. I mean again, look,

589
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 3: if this, if this were the World Series, your lineup

590
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,000
Speaker 3: for all seven games would be how do I get

591
00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 3: all of these guys in? And it would be parade.

592
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 3: He's a DH AL two B a second and you're

593
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:22,560
Speaker 3: Don in left field. You just would like I mean

594
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,080
Speaker 3: I I don't. I don't believe for a second that

595
00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 3: you would not have those guys in a lineup for

596
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 3: the majority of a World Series. And again, until you're not,

597
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 3: it's not gonna embarrass himself in left field. He has

598
00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: not made it known that he doesn't like playing left field.

599
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 3: He has never been hurt from playing left field. Let him,

600
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 3: let him play. I mean, I again, it's easy for

601
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,960
Speaker 3: me to say from from here and not in the dugout,

602
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 3: but I'm trying to get all of those guys into

603
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 3: the lineup every day, and seems to be the clearest

604
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 3: path right now.

605
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 2: I guess like enough that I don't take what Jordan

606
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 2: Alvarez says seriously like I do. But I've also heard

607
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: him say this for like the last four years when

608
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 2: they like every this was this is a story every

609
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:16,600
Speaker 2: spring training.

610
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they haven't needed it before. It was like, oh,

611
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 3: I don't mind playing left field. You know again, he's

612
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 3: not He's not David Ortiz. He's not incapable of playing

613
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 3: left field. He can he can do it. And I mean, look,

614
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 3: right now, you got the hottest offense in baseball. These

615
00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 3: are the guys that you want in the lineup. So again,

616
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 3: just you know, figure out a way to make it happen.

617
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, But also, like I think what I said earlier too,

618
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 2: like he's only played his career high in games played

619
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 2: in the outfield is fifty six. Like even if they

620
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 2: even if even if they do what you are suggesting

621
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,560
Speaker 2: and just listen to him and say screw it, put

622
00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:01,080
Speaker 2: him in the outfield like his I don't think he

623
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 2: is at a place like we've never seen him play

624
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 2: more than fifty six games in the outfield in big

625
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: league season, Like is are his legs in condition enough

626
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 2: to do that? Like we don't know, like we and right,

627
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know that they want to

628
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 2: take that risk. I don't know that they want to

629
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: risk a top five hitter in baseball saying like, you

630
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 2: know what, he's never played more than fifty six games

631
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: in the in left field in his career. We're gonna throw,

632
00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 2: We're gonna run him out there for ninety and just

633
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 2: just hope it works.

634
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:29,520
Speaker 5: No.

635
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm like, like we said, you adjust as

636
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 3: you go. If you play him back to back nights

637
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 3: in left field, and he says, hey, I'm more tired

638
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 3: than usual, then you adjust your plan. But he's he's

639
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 3: a professional athlete. He's in his twenties. Like, it's not

640
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 3: he's not We're not asking somebody to do some impossible

641
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 3: feat of athleticism. Mostly just has to stand in left

642
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 3: field for the majority of the game. It's not like,

643
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 3: you know, you're you're asking him to to run sprints

644
00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 3: or you know, do backflips out there. Like most of

645
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 3: the time you're jogging to pick up a grounder and

646
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: throwing it back to second base. That's that's the majority

647
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 3: of what you're gonna need to do out there. And again,

648
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 3: anything in the gap, Jake Myers is gonna go pick

649
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 3: up anyway. You don't have to go get it. I

650
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 3: don't know. I I agree with you that the most

651
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,120
Speaker 3: important thing is healthy yord On in the batter's box.

652
00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 3: But until until it's not possible to do that, I

653
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: would start with the assumption that this large athletic man

654
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 3: is capable of playing left field on a regular basis.

655
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 2: And I mean, look, he is, but I think the

656
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: other one other thing, one other thing, some food for

657
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,360
Speaker 2: thought here, And you talked about it like they if

658
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 2: they were to go that path, they're going most of

659
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 2: the not every time, Jordon Alvaz is going to be

660
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 2: lifted for defensive purposes if they have a lead, you know,

661
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 2: going into the eighth inning and his spot, you know,

662
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 2: comes up in the seventh and they know it's you know,

663
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,439
Speaker 2: seven or eight batters away, They're probably going to lift

664
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 2: him in the eighth inning for a defensive replacement, especially

665
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 2: if you have Bryce Matthews and Joey Loprafito on your bench, Like,

666
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 2: why would you not? This is a team that you

667
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 2: watched last year, missed again, missed the playoffs by one game.

668
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,600
Speaker 2: Are you comfortable with that situation happening? Like you go

669
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,320
Speaker 2: into the eighth inning with a lead, jord on spot

670
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 2: is you know, seven away in the lineup, and you

671
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 2: lift him for defensive purposes, and then you have a

672
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 2: bad bullpen night, the bullpen blows the game and you

673
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,560
Speaker 2: have to go into the ninth or the tenth inning

674
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 2: Jordon Alvarez his spots up in the order. And this

675
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 2: is no disrespect to anybody on the bench, but you're

676
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 2: sending up a lesser hitter. You're sending up Bryce Matthews,

677
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: Joey Loperfito, Nick Allen, Christian Basquez, whomever is on the bench.

678
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 2: That's no not to disparage them, but all like jord

679
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 2: and Alvarez is a better hitter than all of them,

680
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,799
Speaker 2: and you missed that opportunity.

681
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: This is a team last year.

682
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 2: That missed the playoffs by one game, and I know

683
00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 2: you can. You could look at any number of scenarios

684
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,439
Speaker 2: last year that cost them, But you run that risk.

685
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 2: You run that risk of losing a game or not

686
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 2: giving yourself the best chance to win a game that

687
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 2: you may need down the road because you had to

688
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,319
Speaker 2: take him out for defense in the eighth inning.

689
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 3: See. I hear your logic, and I think the opposite,

690
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:40,080
Speaker 3: because I think, would I rather guarantee myself three yord

691
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,880
Speaker 3: On at bats through the first seven innings and then

692
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 3: maybe there's an off chance that there's one at bat

693
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 3: that I miss later because of a defensive replacement, Or

694
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,400
Speaker 3: would I rather guarantee three at bats from the defensive

695
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 3: replacement earlier in the game on the off chance that

696
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 3: I need Jorda On or pread or whatever later.

697
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:02,439
Speaker 1: In the game.

698
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 3: I'd rather take as many at bats as I want,

699
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 3: all of the best hitters taking as many at bats

700
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 3: as possible. And if the bullpen blows a game, the

701
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 3: bullpen blows a game, it's not like you're missing out

702
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,400
Speaker 3: on everybody else. But look in the fourth inning with

703
00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 3: guys on second and third is just as important as

704
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 3: the eighth inning. And I know for sure that I'm

705
00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,280
Speaker 3: going to get those at bats for my best hitters

706
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 3: earlier in the game, and then I make a defensive

707
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 3: replacement if I need to, But I would again, I

708
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 3: my main goal if I am riding the lineup is

709
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: how do I get my best hitters as many at

710
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: bats as possible.

711
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: No, you're not wrong, and that's a perfectly salient way

712
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,320
Speaker 2: to look at it too. And I wish I could

713
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 2: climb into the heads of Joe A. Spot and Dana Brown,

714
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 2: even though they have both said it out loud kind

715
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:53,400
Speaker 2: of how they feel like.

716
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:54,319
Speaker 1: I wish I could see.

717
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 2: I wish I could understand and know what they hold

718
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 2: more value in because you're right guaranteeing yourself three at

719
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 2: that's from your don and then like maybe not getting

720
00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: him in the ninth of the tenth is that's a

721
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,640
Speaker 2: trade off I think they'd make. They'd want three is

722
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:10,239
Speaker 2: more than one.

723
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:15,840
Speaker 3: You're twenty eight years old, and he is a professional athlete,

724
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:19,840
Speaker 3: He's he will be okay standing in left field. I

725
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 3: understand that you want better defense out there, and I

726
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:28,479
Speaker 3: understand the fear of losing him to an injury. He's

727
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 3: not going to dive for a ball out there, He's

728
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 3: not like he's mostly just going to be jogging and

729
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 3: letting Jake Myers get everything else. Again, I my final

730
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 3: thing here, Just get him in there until it is

731
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 3: clear that it is not working anymore, and then make

732
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 3: an adjustment. But don't start with the assumption that he

733
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:53,360
Speaker 3: is not capable of playing left field. I just I

734
00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 3: don't buy that.

735
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 1: I will say this.

736
00:37:56,880 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 2: I don't think where they're coming from is they're not

737
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:05,080
Speaker 2: questioning his ability out there, like like look like we're all,

738
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 2: we're all you know, we're not idiots. Like he's he's

739
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 2: not a good left fielder, but he's not like a butcher,

740
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,720
Speaker 2: Like he's not a butcher. He's not a good left fielder.

741
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: It's somewhere in the middle. Like I don't think that's

742
00:38:15,680 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 2: ever been Domre or Hayes.

743
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 3: Hilaire was made more embarrassing plays than Jordan has ever made.

744
00:38:21,480 --> 00:38:25,280
Speaker 3: And you know, like there are worse outfielders already playing

745
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 3: every day.

746
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 2: But but that's I don't think that has been the

747
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 2: crux of why they are so reticent to put him

748
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 2: out there. Like it's never been about his ability out

749
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 2: like that has something to do with it, But it's

750
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:37,720
Speaker 2: more of like they need to make sure he's upright

751
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 2: and can stand in the batter's box and.

752
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: Do what he's done.

753
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 2: Like they are more I think they're being more cautious

754
00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 2: and protective of his legs, of just his overall stamina,

755
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:51,080
Speaker 2: of his overall just just existence, like because like we said,

756
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 2: like he has never done this more than fifty six

757
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 2: times in a big league season, and they need to

758
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 2: be cognizant of that. They need to be cognizant of

759
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 2: how his body will respond. And I don't know that

760
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 2: they know that. I don't know that they want to

761
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 2: even risk that either in a season where we're going

762
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 2: to bring it all back full circle now, in a

763
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 2: season where the manager is managing for his job, the

764
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 2: GM is GMing for his job, and the team like

765
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 2: they've got to be able to ensure that this guy

766
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:20,799
Speaker 2: takes every at bat is that is available to him.

767
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 2: And the easiest way to do that is to make

768
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,320
Speaker 2: is to limit the wear and tear that he puts

769
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,440
Speaker 2: on himself, and the easiest way to do that is

770
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 2: to not run him out in left field ninety to

771
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 2: one hundred games a year, that is where I think

772
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 2: they are coming from. Again, they could, like they could

773
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,279
Speaker 2: in two weeks reverse course and say he's our.

774
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: Everyday left fielder.

775
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 2: But it has helped, it has It has made it

776
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 2: more difficult that Joey Loperfido has played very well. Bryce

777
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 2: Matthews is still swinging and missing too much, He's still

778
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 2: striking out too much, but he has you know, I mean,

779
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,479
Speaker 2: he hit a ball four hundred and thirty feet.

780
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: He's made some night.

781
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 2: I mean he had Trevor's Story at Trevor Story, made

782
00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 2: an incredible slide avoid the tag, but made a very

783
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: nice throw in left field. He's looked good in left field,

784
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 2: and he's athletic enough to run around in these bigger ballparks,

785
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 2: and he's more suited for that than Alvarez is. That

786
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 2: has an impact too, that these guys have played well,

787
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 2: that these guys have showed well on the informing this platoon,

788
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 2: and look, they can get those guys work in center

789
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 2: field as well. Jake Myers did not distinguish himself during

790
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,080
Speaker 2: this homestand so they can find ways to get low

791
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 2: Berfito in Matthews, get them some run in center field

792
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 2: as well to still keep left field open if they

793
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 2: wanted to put Jordan Alvarez out there. But there's that.

794
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 1: Too, So.

795
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 2: I think we've sufficiently riled up enough people talking about

796
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 2: the glut. Otherwise, on this road trip, you know they're

797
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 2: going to face the A's are going to throw two

798
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,919
Speaker 2: left handed starters this weekend at Sutter Health Park, which

799
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 2: means you may see a good bit of Bryce Matthews

800
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 2: because he is the side of the platoon that they

801
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 2: want there. You know, he's going to have to, like

802
00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 2: we said, he's struck out I think nine times on

803
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 2: the home stand. That's always been his His bugaboo is

804
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 2: he doesn't make a ton of contact. He doesn't put

805
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 2: the ball in play. We have seen when he puts

806
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 2: the ball in play, he can go very far. But

807
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,560
Speaker 2: he's got to he's got to make more contact. Joey

808
00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 2: Loperfido will get some run against, you know, the the

809
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:17,720
Speaker 2: right handed starters that they do see the right handed

810
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 2: relievers lad in games. But you know, otherwise, this is

811
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 2: a road trip that the Rockies are the Rockies, the

812
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 2: the the A's have not started their season well, they

813
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 2: don't pitch it very well, but that lineup bangs. That

814
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 2: lineup can can bang a lot. We have seen it firsthand.

815
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,000
Speaker 2: Nick Kurtz, who I don't think has a homer yet.

816
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 2: I don't think he is an extra base hit.

817
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: Yet, don't you worry. He loves hitting against the Astros,

818
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: so that could come very soon.

819
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: And then the Mariners, the Mariners, obviously, that'll be a

820
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 2: that'll be a pretty that'll be a fun series to watch.

821
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:53,879
Speaker 2: It'll be again, I'm not gonna sit here and say

822
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 2: it's crucial. I'm not gonna say if they go up

823
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:58,480
Speaker 2: there and get swept it's the end of the season,

824
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 2: or if they go up there and sweep they're gonna

825
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 2: win the West.

826
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,399
Speaker 1: But it's uh. They'd rather win them than lose them.

827
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,840
Speaker 2: But I don't I don't think on April, you know, seventh,

828
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 2: that's going to determine the trajectory of the season. But

829
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 2: it should be a fun road trip, should be fun.

830
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 2: It should be fun, fun, three fun, three city ten

831
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 2: game trip.

832
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I am dreading seeing those children on the

833
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 3: Athletics who hit really well Kurtz and Jacob Wilson Shalangelisers

834
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 3: is off. He has five home runs yep, five home runs.

835
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 3: But they can't pitch and they play in a minor

836
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 3: league ballpark. So whatever they'll they'll figure it out. The marinistry,

837
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 3: I mean, you only play it now, what thirteen times

838
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 3: a year?

839
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: What's the I think it's thirteen yep.

840
00:42:48,480 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean every game is huge again. I

841
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 3: mean it came down to one game last year, uh

842
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,719
Speaker 3: for the Astros. So they're they're just as big in

843
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 3: April as they are later in the season. So definitely

844
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 3: a big road trip. And that's why you want all

845
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 3: your good players in the lineup.

846
00:43:09,640 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 2: And we'll see if they're able to do that. If

847
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 2: they are able to do that this weekend in Sacramento,

848
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 2: we will bring you full coverage debating every lineup decision,

849
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 2: scrutinizing and analyzing every decision from this weekend in Sacramento

850
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 2: on the next Krushchity Territory. But until then, you can

851
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 2: follow me on x at Chandler Underscore Room. You can

852
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,400
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853
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,560
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854
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855
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,479
Speaker 2: notified every time we post a new pod. Like I said,

856
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 2: we will be back probably on Sunday night to recap

857
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 2: the A series kind of see what they were able

858
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 2: to do with this glut of infielders, whether they listen

859
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 2: to whether Joe listens to Tyler and just plays jord

860
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 2: and Alvarez and left field every day to get everybody

861
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: in the lineup, or whether you know they're just gonna

862
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,560
Speaker 2: be cautious with them. But until then, have a very

863
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 2: nice Easter weekend everyone, and we will talk to you soon.

864
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 3: The Jordan gold Glove campaign starts right now. Bye.